[Rhodes22-list] Yamaha 8 hp motor source?

[Mike Cheung]

Mary Lou,

Thanks!  I'll hunt down that thread and give it a read.  BTW: The good deal
at Ed's Marine Superstore didn't pan out, they had sold out of the older
T8ELH's they were trying to move.  So, I'm busy trying to hunt down a deal
on one, or I may get it through Stan, or I may end up going with a local
dealer for the same reason as you.  Curiously, Yamaha apparently has a
policy against their dealers shipping the motors to customers.  I guess to
reduce dealer-dealer competition.

Mike C.



Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> We have a Yamaha 8 high thrust. We've only had it since last October 
> and unfortunately haven't done much sailing yet this season so we 
> only have limited experience with it. Our former outboard was a Honda 
> 8 (old style). We never wished for more power with the old motor. 
> When we looked for a new motor we wanted to shave every pound we 
> could so we went for the Yamaha with electric start but without the 
> electric tilt (which didn't have a tiller arm anyway which we thought 
> we wanted as we don't have the motor to rudder connection.
> 
> There was a discussion last October about some of our choices and our 
> remote controls in October 2007 under the subject heading "repowering 
> Fretless". We bought the motor from Boat House (a div. of Boater's 
> World) on Kent Island (MD). We wanted a local dealer in case we 
> needed to have work done).
> 
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
> 
> 
> 

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